Antiskidding device for vehicle-tires.



' H. W. WHITE & A. T. SHELDON.

ANTISKIDDING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE TIRES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2|, I912.

1,152,665. Patnted Aug. 31, 1915.

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HARRY W. WHITE AND AURIN T. SHELDON, 0F ATGHEE, COLORADO.

ANTISKIDDING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE-TIRES.

Applicationfiledseptember'm, 1912. Serial No. 721,609.

VehiclerTires, of which'the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lniprovements in tire armor and has particular application to anti-skidding devices for vehicle tires.

In carrying out the present invention, it is our purpose to provide a device of the class described which when applied to the Wheel tire will prevent or elin' 'nate skidding or sliding of=the tires on wet streets or roadways incident to inclement weather.

It is also our purpose toprovide an anti skidding device for the tires of vehicle wheels which will embrace the desired features' of simplicity, efliciency and durability coupled with cheapness of cost in manufac ture and marketing and which may be readily and quickly applied to and detached from the'tirc'.

lVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts here inatter set forth in and falling within the scope of the claim.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a side elevation of a vehicle wheel showing my invention applied to the tire thereof. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view through the'device. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the tread mom-- 'bers. Referring now to the accompanying drawing in detail, A indicates a suitable form of vehicle wheel to the rim or periphery of which is fastened in any'usual manner the tire B, the lattenbeing of any preferred or ordinary construction.

()u'r improved tire armor or anti-skidding device is indicated as an entirety by the reference letter C and, in the present instance. comprises a pair of attaching devices l, 1, each composed of a ring formed of two sections 2, 2 One end of each section 2 is suitably bent upon itself to form an eye 3 and receives the eye atthe adjacent end oi the other section whereby apivotal connei-tion between the sections of the attaching devices is formed. The opposite will presently appear.

or free ends of the sections 2, 2 of each atcaching device are, in this form of our inventlon, threaded inrelatively opposite directions to receive a correspondingly threaded. turn buckle 4. By means of this construction, an adjustable connection is brought about between the free ends of the sections of each ring, for a purpose which The attaching devices thus constructed areiapplied to the-op-. positc sides of the tire B, as clearly illustrated in the drawing, while spanning the tread of the tire and the space between the attaching devices are a number of tread members 5 arranged at appropriate distances apart about the circumference of the tire so as to prevent skidding-on wet roadways and the like. Each tread member, in the present instance, is composed of a strip of suitable yieldable material and 'has its opposite ends looped about the attaching devices, as by bending the ends to form eyes 6.

The tread members are each further formed with a center longitiulin ally; disposed calk the center calk, and obliquely arranged calks 9 beyond the secomlmuned calks. This arrangen'ient of the calks produces a maximum gripping surface so that skiddlng is practically eliminated.

From" theforegoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the constructionand manner of employing our invention will be readily apparent.

lVith the various parts of our armor o1 anti-skidding device assembled, it is only necessary to detach. the adjustably conquently the tread members.

While we have herein shown'and described one form of our invention by way of illustration, we desire to have it understood that we do not limit or confine ourselves to the precise details of construction herein le- 31! scribed and delineated, as modification and variation may be made Within the scope of the claimand without departing from the spirit of the invention.

We claim:

The combination with a Vehicle tire, of an anti-skidding device therefor comprising tread members having their extremities formed into eyes that lie below the center of the tire and sectional annular rings passing through the eyes, each of said tread members having its outer surfaceprovided with a centrally arranged calk having its axis lying parallel to the axis of the tire, a pair of calks disposed upon opposite sides of the center tcalk and having their axes lying at 5 right angles to the axis of the center calk, and a second pair of calks having their axes arranged at an angle to each other and to the three first mentioned calks.

In testimony whereof We afiix our signa- 20 tnres in presence of two witnesses.

" HARRY W. WHITE.

AURIN T. SHELDON. WVitnesses: 3

BEN H, Cox, SAMUEL BUTLER. 

